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Tech Companies Expand AI Features in Multiple Products

Updated 3:14 AM ET · 9:27 AM ETConfirmed

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In Short: Tech companies are expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their products, with Google Docs rolling out a significant update that includes AI features.

Tech companies are expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their products, with Google Docs rolling out a significant update that includes AI features.

Samsung is also moving forward with AI features in One UI 8.5, which includes Call Screening, real-time Audio Eraser, Creative Studio, and Photo Assist.

HONOR has introduced Magic OS 11, which closely mimics iOS features, including the Liquid Glass look.

The company has also gone beyond its traditional earplugs to introduce a new sleep mask, expanding its product line to address sensory well-being.

The Beyond Fest film festival in Los Angeles is set to return with a massive lineup of 81 feature films, including 10 World Premieres, 4 North American Premieres, and 28 West Coast Premieres.

Astronomers have detected bursts of radio wave energy that suggest planets beyond our Solar System might host magnetic fields, shaping their atmospheres and shielding them from stellar winds.

The festival will open with Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime and close with Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

Irene Okpanachi, a Features writer for Android Police and Talk Android, covers a wide range of topics including Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders.

Okpanachi noted that she learned of gestures beyond those three in Android's accessibility suite.

Loop Earplugs, a brand that has sold more than 22 million products across 150 countries, is now expanding into sleep masks to manage light at night.

The brand's expansion into sleep masks reflects its ethos of designing wearables that are functional, comfortable, and stylish.

Power banks have evolved significantly, moving beyond bulky, slow chargers to offer faster and more efficient charging options.

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Background

What's confirmed

• Premieres, 28 West Coast Premieres, for a total of 81 feature films Presented by MUBI and programmed and produced in partnership with the American Cinematheque, Beyond Fest returns to the Egyptian Theatre, the MUBI Theatre at the Aero, Directors Village, and the MUBI Theatre at the Los Feliz 3, with all ticket sales going to the 501(c)(3) non-profit film institution.

What's still developing

• Kicking off in New York and continuing through Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and beyond, this year’s show features its most expansive slate of musical artists yet, with dozens of performances set to appear across multiple time zones, on Wednesday, 31st December 2025 from 8:00 p.m.-4:00 a.m.
• The team detected bursts of radio wave energy (from 0.85 to 3.5 GHz) which were strongly circularly polarized and repeated very frequently, characteristic features of the Electron Cyclotron Maser Instability; this same mechanism is responsible for producing the auroral radio waves on both Earth and Jupiter.
• Setting aside the fact that Magic OS 11 might as well be called iOS 27, HONOR is also introducing some impressive new features with the update.
• Apple frequently “borrows” features from Android brands and markets them as game-changing innovations, while Android manufacturers often copy Apple’s software and industrial design.
• Beyond writing, Irene is a gamer, singer/songwriter, food lover, and a Jack of all trades.
• They further widen the gap between the pro and non-pro iPhones with even more "pro" features like a camera system that goes far beyond its physical lenses, an A17 Pro chip with performance that's in a class of its own, an Action button that pushes customization to a new level, and a USB-C port that finally makes transferring high-res photos and videos speedy.
• All of these features and more are wrapped in new titanium frames that are lighter than any "pro" iPhone that Apple has ever shipped.
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• Ten years after its initial launch, this moves the brand beyond its earplugs that continue to dominate the market — with more than 22 million products sold across 150 countries — and collaborations with the likes of the McLaren Formula 1 team, SoulCycle, Paris Hilton, Harry Styles’ Pleasing, Swarovski and more.
• “For us, sensory well-being starts with a simple belief: our senses have a huge impact on how we experience life,” explained Dimitri O.
• Apple released iOS 27 this week, and despite the company's focus this year on refining its flagship operating system and nixing bugs, there are still many additional features to explore, not least of which is Apple's new context-aware Siri, re-tooled for the generative AI era.
• A new wallpaper extension feature in iOS 27 uses Apple Intelligence to automatically expand a photo beyond its original boundaries so it fills the entire Lock Screen more naturally.

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